HR Advisor

HR Advisor
Location: Hybrid, 3 days on site in Guildford, Surrey
Salary: £35-40k plus 28 days holiday, PMI, Income protection, 8% pension, bonus, life assurance, and much more.
Type: Full-time, Permanent

Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same?
We’re looking for an HR Advisor to join a collaborative and high-performing People team in a values-led organisation. If you enjoy building relationships, influencing leaders, and helping shape a great employee experience, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

As HR Advisor, you’ll play a central role in delivering a responsive, solutions-focused HR service to employees and managers across the business. Working closely with People Partners and the wider HR team, you’ll support everything from employee relations advice to policy development and leadership coaching.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking team where your input will genuinely make a difference.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide balanced, timely advice to managers and employees on policies, procedures, and best practice.

• Manage informal and formal employee relations cases, identifying risks early and supporting effective resolution.

• Act as a trusted advisor and sounding board to managers, helping them build confidence and capability in people management.

• Contribute to continuous improvement across policies and people processes.

• Support delivery of strategic People initiatives and ad hoc HR projects.

• Keep up to date with employment law and ensure compliance across all HR activity.

• Work closely with People Operations and Analytics to monitor trends and recommend improvements.

• Model positive behaviours and foster a collaborative, inclusive working culture.

About You

You’ll be someone who combines sound HR knowledge with the ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the business. You’ll be confident, empathetic, and practical in your approach, with excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

We’re also looking for:

• Proven experience in a generalist HR role, in a professional setting

• Strong understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice

• CIPD qualification (or working towards it) preferred

• Experience of managing employee relations cases through to resolution

• Ability to balance commercial awareness with fairness and consistency

• A continuous improvement mindset – open to driving positive change

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ready to make your mark as an HR Advisor? Apply today or get in touch for a confidential chat.

Please quote 51683 when calling Simon at Alexander Lloyd or email them at sge@alexanderlloyd.co.uk. This is only one of many vacancies we are handling, Alexander Lloyd Human Resources Recruitment Solutions is the leading recruiter for HR Director, Manager, Business Partner, Learning & Development, Internal Communications, Talent Acquisition and Reward opportunities across Surrey, Sussex, Kent and London.

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website www.alexanderlloyd.co.uk for any other roles which may be of interest.